[Poll Ballot Tally] Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed by John F. Ross 3 stars

[Karin]

This biography of Eddie Rickenbacker spends a great deal of time in World War I, since that is where he became the United States' greatest Ace as far as number of enemy killed. However, the first section deals primarily with is childhood and his years in the auto industry and as a automobile racer, and in the last section there is a chapter about his harrowing three weeks on a life raft adrift in the Pacific with seven others during World War II.

Did I love this? No, but then I am not fond of descriptions of battle nor of descriptions of developing machines, so this is no sleight at the author who has done a good job. This book straightens things out quite a bit from the grossly exaggerated books which were published during Eddie's lifetime. If you are interested in these subjects, then this is most definitely a book for you


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